Things that people say that alert you of them being fascist?
Things that people say that alert you of them being fascist?
Literally any mention of some supposed 'western civilization' or 'western culture'. Like just say the 14 words already, cause we all know that's what you believe in. Fucking coward
"License and registration please"
"The reason I pulled you over..."
Actually was just meeting a friend of a friend the other day and I was talking about rent prices, and they brought up "the illegals"
Gave em the ol'
As if an "illegal" would ever afford or want to live in their vegan liberal upscale apartment on top of a whole foods and an Orange Theory
Yeah this person literally sits on their local chamber of commerce
Using the word "complexion" to describe a neighbourhood, especially in combination with opposition to apartment building construction.
"Overpopulation" or any mention of not having enough resources is some ass-backward Malthusian mindset that usually indicates someone wants to do a culling of undesirables.
If I hear that kind of take I always go "Yeah exactly billionaires use so many more resources than a normal person that they're not sustainable and they have to go". Strangely, so far nobody has agreed
Any time someone talks about how China or India has more pollution than the US, like to tell them that there are more people in those countries, so per-capita the pollution is much lower. And the majority of that pollution is produced by factories that make goods that are sold in the US. So it's pretty much our pollution, we just outsourced it.
This is essentially the entire Scandinavian fash. Typically with some not so subtle eugenism thrown in.
"There isn't enough room for more people here" when they live in a country that has over 38,000 golf courses and the average private suburban property is several times larger than the house that's built on it.
'Globalists'
Similarly, caring a lot about Epstein specifically, or generally talking about what the "elites" are doing without any class consciousness.
Making sure everybody knows just how much you enjoy eating pork.
"Western/European/Judeo-Christian/[nation_adjective] values"
Having a football-related Twitter profile pic.
Supporting zionism.
That neighbourhood is dangerous!
"We have to look out for our own first!" (Proceeds to do fuckall to look out for "their own")
"We can't save the entire world"
"There has to be a consequence!" (When talking about how some racialised form of crime is not punished enough)
All forms of flag-shagging
"We can't save the entire world"
While then going hard about how we "must" keep our troops everywhere in the world at all times.
There's a certain elementary school education that just encodes this shit on your brain. Everything is Euro-centric. Only the most lily white aristocrats get any kind of credit for progress. Phillip of Macedonia, King Louis XIV of France, and Winston Churchill are transformative historical figures while Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad, King Sejong the Great, and Ho Chi Minh barely merit a mention.
Is it any wonder why American students step out of their high school graduation ceremonies believing Cleveland, Ohio is the pivot around which the rest of the world turns?
One of the reasons a book like Howard Zinn's "People's History" sends so many college freshmen spinning sideways, despite it being barely a nudge off the center of the western oriented curriculum, stems from the degree to which public schools blind their students to any variance in historical perspective. These kids come out fragile as porcelain, and absolutely primed to shatter, given the teenage inclination toward rebellion and the ample evidence of their indoctrination.
When I hear someone say "Western Civilization", my knee-jerk response is to bring up something wildly outside their wheelhouse. Historical figures, events, and even whole civilizations they've never heard of. "Have you ever heard of the Phoenician alphabet? Because you're using it, kid. Your entire language is rooted in North Africa."
A lifetime ago I was into fashy memes on 4chan so I got to learn the inns and outs of hating Jewish people. Anything like "oy vey" "goyim" or a -berg at the end of a last name can be a red flag you're dealing with an antisemite. Problem is now a lot of them have dressed up their hatred in more respectable politics by attaching themselves to the anti-zionist movement in the west. So you get chucklefucks like Jackson Hinkle who you think oh wow cool they're anti-Israel so their politics must me good but nope.
'kek' is a major red flag, but isn't definite proof. Sometimes idiot liberals add the wrong words to their vocabulary.
Knowing too much and at the same time not enough about Romans is also a big red flag.
Years ago I had an apartment neighbor who had a kek flag in his window. I talked to him exactly one time in which after telling him I'm a musician he went off about how the music scene in our city sucked because a bunch of people beat the shit out of him in the pit at a hardcore show lmao
Guarantee this idiot was standing dead centre of a karate pit and got bashed or he did something that made people kick the shit out of him. You don't generally get your ass kicked at hardcore shows unless you've done something to earn it, this isn't the 80s
Kek could just mean they played World of Warcraft. Which is worse.
Knowing too much and at the same time not enough about Romans is also a big red flag.
We call this the "marble statue avatar valley"
when a white guy complains about taxes
Or inflation, any time someone talks about economics like it's a kind of magic that (((certain people))) can control for some reason is a bad sign.
ascribing everything to George Soros and 'the globalists', complaining about 'the lgbt agenda', warning about the 'impending fall of western civilization', complaining about there being too many immigrants and talking about civilizational incompatibility, suggesting shooting at boats with migrants in the Mediterranean, calling liberal politicians communists, trying to redeem Francisco Franco
they use seasons like they're verbs. ie: we summered in switzerland or we wintered in mexico.
they like to imply that a majority hold their views: eg: "we're they're the silent majority" or identifying freedom fighters as "terrorists".
expensive hobbies are also a dead give away. eg hunting, 3d printing, photography, etc.
Most of these things are only tangentially related if at all lmao.
except the middle line you're just describing wealthy people, who while they are class enemies, aren't just like, inherently, currently fascists. The only one I'd say is fairly solid is calling people terrorists but you do kinda get that from libs all the time, even unscratched ones
Except for the middle, that's all stuff a normal rich liberal would do.
And those aren't even great examples of expensive hobbies, nowadays it's possible to find decent 3d printers for less than $100 if there's a sale (my 3d printer + phone + desktop + laptop are all only $20 above a new iPhone 16 from Apple), and rural hicks with relatively little income will hunt too.
Guys who refer to women as "females" but never refer to men as "males." 95% of the time they are reactionary af.
”Mass immigration”, ”open borders” (obviously depending on tone) and ”unskilled migrants”.
Talking about Bill Gates, now obviously he's terrible on all levels, but Gates bashing is a reliable fash tell. Same goes for the Clintons.
All of these come from the same guy:
"I don't think our black coworkers are people, they don't have souls."
"I'm eastern orthodox but only online, I can't go to the orthodox churches here because they're full of slavs."
"I'm not voting for either party because neither one is going to protect our people."
"I'm collecting these guns so i can protect myself and my family from all the minorities in the city when society collapses."
"You should read Hitler, he has good ideas and was censored for being right."
But this guy is also just weirdly open about being a fascist.
For most people it's stuff like suddenly becoming very religious but only for Orthodoxy or Catholicism, if they were raised evangelical or irreligious.
Being vocally uncomfortable with cities as a concept.
Talking about how bad crime is these days.
Making remarks about how you "can't do that anymore" or "you never see that anymore."
I don't think any of those are foolproof but they get the
going."I'm eastern orthodox but only online, I can't go to the orthodox churches here because they're full of slavs."
How did he even end up like that? Eastern Orthodox, but hates the people of the east?
Online I guess? I think he likes that it subdivides by ethnicity (Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox etc.) but he considers himself a German/Aryan.
The word "thug", although I don't know how common that is anymore. "Femihitlerite" used to be a dead giveaway too, but you don't really see it anymore, wonder why
Using adjectives that describe minorities as plural nouns, e.g. "the blacks" or "the transgenders".
edit: apparently the second one is so obvious the slur filter gets it, nice.
"thug" is still pretty common among older people. Just ask a white boomer NBA fan about draymond green to get instant confirmation
"Thug" = any Black person between the ages of 14 and 45 who isn't dressed in church clothes.
"Femihitlerite"
removed
Edit: Huh I didn't know that was banned
Talking about gene pool or artificial selection to explain economic problems.
To add to this: talking about, or having preoccupation with 'homogeneity' or Darwin, or competition
in Europe its mostly "I don't understand why the workers have to strike every week" and being just overly annoyed about strikes even when it doesn't disturb their day
"I'm not a fascist/conservative I'm a liberal :smuglord: "
When someone is telling a story about how some random stranger did some inconsequential thing that bugged them like cut them off while driving or had their shopping cart in the way at the store and they make sure to tell you the offenders race. They NEVER include it if it was another white person.
they don't have to say anything, you can tell by their upvotes
Way too keen on the Imperium of Man or the Star Wars Empire or "humanity, fuck yeah" stuff in fiction.
Ya, why is that exactly? The "humanity, fuck yeah" stuff I remember loving when I was a young 4chan dweeb, but at some point it started to make me uncomfortable and I'm not sure why. I figured it was just the cringe of that trope being overplayed in reddit writing prompt suggestions, but there definitely could be something else there, related to in-groups or maybe the victimization makes it appeal to fascists. Idk lol.
I saw it on tumblr of all places.
These are just my related thoughts.
RPGs (both computer and tabletop) use "races" in a way that enables "race play" for comfortable middle class white kids. Orks in Shadowrun are "just" black people, but in the setting all the real life beliefs of the white hegemony about black people (more resilient to pain, gruff, high birthrates, bad at maths) are made real in the setting through the statline juking. "Humanity, fuck yeah" presents a safe, plausibly-deniable, way of being racist.
"Humanity, fuck yeah" also allows a racist to say "Oh, no, I love all races of humanity. Captain Anderson is black in Mass Effect!" while still engaging in exactly the same behaviours. Their eagerness to lean into the fantastical is a way of evading voicing any of their actual beliefs about their own position in white society.
It also reflects the fascist belief that some people are just born for greatness. Obviously, for the fascist, this is about the nation and local industrialists, but "Humanity, fuck yeah" leans into this belief without stating anything about particular groups of humans. Being part of the special noble ones (through birth) that will save humanity/everyone (through shedding empathy and "woke nonsense", and engaging in ruthless realpolitik) is actually a pretty common fantasy/sci-fi trope and fascist rhetoric.
After a while, if enough fashy people lean into it, it becomes a sort of shibboleth, but more naturally formed than the OK symbol.
Not to say that anyone who is into "humanity fuck yeah" stuff or has posted it once is a fascist, it's just something that I've seen crop up a lot and I'd consider a reddish flag.
"I'm a centrist" or "I'm a moderate."
